Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-06-23
GOOD WIVES.
Why Women Should Be Centers
Of Order at Home.
The Management OF Household a Mat
ter OF Business-Moral and Physi-
cal Influence OF q well-Or-
dered House.


she should also be the center of order.
1t is impossible to overestimate the
Importance of orderly habits not mere
ly to herself but to her relations and
friends When early acquired they
become kind of instinct, discomfort
and disorder disappearing before them
as if by magic. For the orderly ar
rangement of a household by no means
depends upon the amount Of money that
is spent in it, but rather on the orderly
habits OF its mistress Of course, clev-
err servants can do great deal; but
even they become demoralized in time
when the mistress and the young
ladies of the house are not orderly.
1t is the details of comfort supplied
by the women who take care of it that
make home. The family sense of
well-being does not consist in the ro-
mantle surroundings, or architectural
beauty, or artistic furnishing of house,
so much as in the cleanliness, the neat
ness, the punctuality--in a word, the
order of its interior economy. These
are the outward and visible signs of
the character of good housekeeper.
How can tell herr
BY her cellar,
Clearly shelves and whitened walls.
can guess her
BY her dresser,
BY the back staircase and hall
And with pleasure
Take her measure
By the way she keeps her brooms:
Or the peeping
At the keeping
or her back and unseen rooms;
BY her kitchens air Of neatness,
And its general completeness,
Wherein In cleanliness and sweetness
The rose Of Order blooms
Speaking of girls work, Rev. H. R.
Haweis says: "Order, neatness,
cleanliness, must first be learnt. God IS
world is in order. Some habits must
be learnt young. If you are not
orderly at eighteen the chances are you
never will be. A slovenly girl will
make slatternly wife. Go home and
look at your cupboards. How many
things can you find without huntP
Peep into those corners-drawers-
nondescript places, where every thing
for which there is no other place gets
slowed away. Do you notice grease
spots quicklyp Do you take them out,
or merely fold them over? A lady said
to me: What can be worse than a
glove that has been mendedp' "A
glove that wants mending,' replied. y
These may seem to be small things,
but they show that there are too many
girls like certain lazy, fashionable
young lady, who the other day was
heard giving the following piece Of
sententious advice: "Never put off till
tomorrow what you can get your
mother to do to-day"
One of the first requisites of we'll
ordered home is punctuality. If there
is no regard for time, "happy-go
lucky administration, there is always
more or less friction. Trains run at 6
particular hour. Schools and office:
begin at certain time. So, il the ar
rangements of house are not punctua
its inmates will always be in weary
ing, irritating hurry, and yet never in
time. Napoleon's cook always had
roast chicken ready for his master a.
any time he called for breakfast be-
cause every quarter of an hour he pu
a fresh chicken down to roast. 1t We
can not afford so many chickens, We
must be punctual to the settled hour o.
meals. A lady of experience observes
that a good way to pick out husband
is to see how patiently he waits for din
ner when it is behindtime. Her hus
band remarks that good way to picl
out wife is to see whether the woman
has dinner ready in time. A man said
81 have very reliable clock, for wheI
it points at two, it always strikes
twelve, and then l know it is half-pas
seven o'clock" spent the other da,
in house the mistress of which resem
bled that clock, and Fever wish T.
enter it again. Every meal was a
least an hour late. The hostess spen
much of her time in looking for keys
and only spoke to apologize for thing
that never would have gone wrong /
she had been center of order rattle
than she was. painfully chaotic
We often speak of businessmen.
but are there not business-women, too
in the worlde Certainly; for the man
agement of household is as much
matter of business as the Management